be an apology for

make no apologies for (something)

To be firm in one's conviction that one's beliefs or actions are correct or acceptable. I'm always open to suggestions and criticisms, but I'll make no apologies for the way I've run this business over the past 25 years.

make no apology for (something)

To be firm in one's conviction that one's beliefs or actions are correct or acceptable. I'm always open to suggestions and criticisms, but I'll make no apology for the way I've run this business over the past five years.

with apologies to

1. Used to indicate that something is a parody or improper adaptation of someone or their work. You just need to face it that young people today don't put any value in that anymore—with apologies to Bob Dylan, the times they are a-changin'.

2. Used to indicate that someone or something is not included in what one is about to say. With apologies to Hendrikson, who has always brought great energy and effort onto the field, this team has done little to warrant anyone's attention or respect.

an apology for something

make no aˈpology/aˈpologies for something

if you say that you make no apology/apologies for something, you mean that you do not feel that you have said or done something wrong: Having grown up in the north of the country, I make no apologies for saying that people there are more friendly than people in the south.

Justice Khosa said that word 'apology' is not in his statement, adding apology is used in the Contempt of Court Ordinance 2003 and unless that word is not included in the statement they could not consider it.

However, it seems that Obama will not be waiting for an apology that will never come from the Japanese, merely because the Japanese believe that they have suffered more than the Americans from the aforementioned incidents.

As apologies come they also invite comparison, and two recent high-profile apologies highlight differences between East and West: On the cusp of the New Year, Japan's hawkish Prime Minister Shinzo Abe issued a surprising, yet highly specific apology for sex slavery in Korea before and during World War II.

The Apologies (Scotland) Bill removes a legal barrier to individuals and organisations apologising for a mistake, by preventing the apology being used as evidence of liability in most civil legal proceedings.

Following the goals of CCSARP such as determining the fundamental universalities in addition to the culture-specificity of applying speech act sets, the authors of this study attempt to extract and categorize apology strategies in Sarawani Balochi, a dialect of Balochi which has not been studied yet in the case of its speech acts.

Apologise DO not hesitate or wait Or your apology may be too late Be precise and quite clear As an apology needs to sound sincere Make your apology polite and brief You could save yourself a lot of grief It may take courage to apologise It needs to be said if you are wise A public apology covers one and all And maybe it could save your downfall Both by G McLANDERS

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